Most Recent Articles by Frank Milewski:

Sep 3, 2017 — Frank Milewski

Maspeth, NY…. To observe the 78th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland that started World War ll on September l, 1939, New York’s Polish American community (Polonia) will be participating in a solemn memorial mass on Sunday, September 3.

A section of 56th Road bordering the church had its name changed to “St. Pope John Paul II Way” in 2014 largely through the efforts of the Polish American-Jewish American Dialog Committee of Queens, N.Y. The Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress was the organization representing the Polish side of the dialog.

Jan 13, 2017 — Frank Milewski

BROOKLYN, NY…With the passing of 2016 and our hopes in a new year, I reflect on my father’s 95th birthday on January 28, 2017, the passage of time, humanity, and his legacy as a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor. It is nothing short of extraordinarily good fortune and his deep faith in God that spared my father’s life during 5 years of unthinkable Nazi brutality.

Waclaw Kolodziejek was arrested in August 1940 in Warsaw as a teenager. His crime: being Polish. And he was Catholic. It took many days in a crowded standing room only cattle car train before he was unloaded in Auschwitz concentration camp. He found himself in the company of hundreds of thousands of other Catholic Poles just like him. Auschwitz was not yet completed, so my father was forced to finish this Nazi order.

Oct 15, 2015 — Frank Milewski

New York, N.Y….It appears the producers of NBC’s Saturday Night Live Show have come to the conclusion that mean-spirited nasty jokes are just what a multi-cultural society like America needs today. This way, one ethnic group can keep insulting other ethnic groups with juvenile humor acceptable to all. And NBC will supply the jokes.

Sep 6, 2015 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn, N.Y… While much of the world observed the 70th anniversary of the 1945 end of World War II, Polish Americans also commemorated the day that war began. At the age of 93, Walter Kolodziejek (left) remains living proof Adolf Hitler chose the Polish people to be his first victim when Nazi Germany launched World War II on September 1, 1939, with the invasion of Poland.

Sep 30, 2014 — Frank Milewski

Richmond Hill, N.Y. .. “Nowhere else is Holocaust history as distorted and as misrepresented as it is about Poland.” These are the words of Michael Preisler, a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz who came to the United States after World War II and devoted himself to correcting those distortions and misrepresentations.

Aug 26, 2014 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn, N.Y. .. “Tell a little lie, no one will believe you. Tell a big lie, everyone will believe you.” This was a World War II statement attributed to Joseph Goebbels, chief of Nazi Germany’s Ministry for Propaganda. And the more you repeat it, the more believed it becomes, according to his theory.

Aug 15, 2014 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn, N.Y.—In a letter addressed to New Jersey’s Department of Education, the Holocaust Documentation Committee of the Polish American Congress is asking the agency to remove a series of false statements about Poland and the Polish people appearing in the Holocaust curriculum displayed on its website.

May 30, 2014 — Frank Milewski

Dec 20, 2013 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn, N.Y. .. The Anti-Bigotry Committee of the Polish American Congress issued a protest letter to the Disney-owned ABC-TV network after late-night host Jimmy Kimmel recently decided to use a series of anti-Polish ethnic jokes and ridiculed the effort of the Polish cavalry to fight back against Hitler’s invasion of Poland which began World War II.

Oct 15, 2013 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn, N.Y. .. Friends and members of Greenpoint’s St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish will be able to join the Downstate New York Division of the Polish American Congress (PAC) in honoring their former pastor, Rev. Joseph Szpilski C.M., at the Annual Awards Banquet the Congress holds at the Polish & Slavic Center on October 26th.

Oct 10, 2013 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn N.Y. It’s going to be the Pulaski Association of the New York City Police Department who will be served with a citation when the Downstate Division of the Polish American Congress (PAC) holds its Annual Awards Banquet at Greenpoint’s Polish & Slavic Center on October 26th.

Sep 12, 2013 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn N.Y... There is good reason why the Polish American Congress chose Henryk Cioczek, M.D. Ph.D., as one of its honorees when it holds its Annual Awards Banquet at the Polish & Slavic Center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on October 26th.

Aug 6, 2013 — Frank Milewski

New York, N.Y… August is the month America’s Polish community annually commemorates the 1944 Warsaw Uprising (now referred to as “the Rising”) which attempted to liberate Poland’s capitol city from a five-year-long German occupation..

Feb 7, 2013 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn, N.Y. .. When retired U.S. Army General Edward Rowny saw this photo of Polish Catholic Auschwitz survivor Walter Kolodziejek on the Internet, it was a grim reminder of his own experiences during the time he was on active duty.

Jan 30, 2013 — Frank Milewski

Jan 8, 2013 — Frank Milewski

Hitler’s SS Guards changed the name of Walter Kolodziejek (below) after he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz in the summer of 1940, just a few weeks after the Germans opened it. He was only 18 then. The day he arrived he came to be known as Auschwitz prisoner #2254 and has worn that number on his chest ever since.

Nov 16, 2012 — Frank Milewski

New York, N.Y. .. Chet Szarejko, Vice President of the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress (left), and Division President Frank Milewski present Poland’s Consul General in New York, Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, with a copy of the newly published book, “Poland the First Democracy in Modern Europe.”

Sep 27, 2012 — Frank Milewski

Brooklyn, N.Y. … Among the organizations the Downstate New York Division of the Polish American Congress will be honoring at its 2012 Awards Banquet this October is one with ties to America’s War of Independence and, specifically, to Casimir Pulaski, the Polish officer who volunteered his services to Gen. George Washington 235 years ago.

Feb 25, 2012 — Frank Milewski

Patricia Kolodziejek, a member of the Children of Polish Christian Holocaust Survivors with the Polish American Congress, wishes her dad a Happy 90th Birthday.

A Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, Walter Kolodziejek was sent to the death camp shortly after the Nazi’s opened it in 1940.

Brooklyn, N.Y. .. Living long enough to celebrate a 90th birthday would be something special for anyone. It would be something “extra special” for anyone who had to spend several years in the Auschwitz death camp and suffer the brutality of Hitler’s SS.

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